CORY'S NOTES ✏️ On the recommendation of an architect-entrepreneur friend, I read The Win Without Pitching Manifesto, which is excellent overall but really, really good for agencies and service-oriented businesses. This quote from the book especially stuck out to me: "Presenting is…

Over at his blog, Matt shared his online streaming setup. If you have some cash to burn (or if you are a CEO) then you might be interested in some of his picks. No matter what your budget is, there's…

Ashley Rich and Brad Touesnard have put together a setup guide for Ubuntu 18.04 to "run WordPress fast." Chapter one explains how to set up a secure virtual server on DigitalOcean. 💨

The 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results have been published. WordPress doesn't seem to fare well in these surveys, although that might be due to the lack of WordPress developers taking them. Notably, while WordPress was ranked the most "dreaded"…

Here's an attempt by Joshua Thijssen to list all 150+ Amazon Web Services with clear descriptions of what they do. 🤯

📻 If you are interested in learning how to start a podcast, Joe Casabona has a new course devoted to this subject. It is a paid course, but the initial lessons are available for free as a preview. Joe covers…

Jeffrey Nolte has the skinny on Google's "core web vitals" — the metrics Google considers "essential" for “a healthy site” today. 📈